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Subject: Re: How do I overclock a Pentium4?- easy

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 11:18:48 03/26/01

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On March 24, 2001 at 08:20:52, John Smith wrote:

>go to www.overclockers.com for all the info.  Don't pay attention to prophets of
>doom; if you control heat and don't go crazy with the voltage, nothing will
>happen.  My 566 celeron is overclocked to 920.

The Celerons are special!

Intel deliberately underclocked the bus so they would not compete with the
overpriced PIIIs. Of course, when the PIII can run at 100/133 MHz bus and in
dual processor configurations, so can the Celeron. It's the same chip core.

It's just that Intel says it's "not supported". So they can sell them cheaper.

They haven't exactly tried the "cheaper" trick with the P4s yet. Maybe we will
see a cheaper P4SX later?  :-)



Bo Persson
bop@malmo.mail.telia.com



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